Innovation
Turn on your own light
Why & How
Ramel Levin
We all have the potential
1 Agree on what is a new product
2 Discuss why new product
3 Decide what to innovate
4 Is Innovation a recipe for success?
5 How to innovate
Those who cannot rememberthe
past are condemned to repeat it
--George Santayana
Let’s learn from the world’s #1 brand
Sad, true story of the New Coke
Coke
what?
Guess
What?
24%
What do we do?
A New Product is Born…
People retaliated…
Have you tried it?
Yes.
Did you like it?
Yes, but I'll be damned if I'll let Coca-Cola know that.
-- Country club outside Atlanta
Was it just a planned
trick?
Today they keep the changes to the cover
1 Agree on what is a new product
Which one would you
If you could choose
Invent?
Evolutionvs. Revolution
Look at me, I'm a Me-too Product
New &
Improved
Extremely New Products
When should
you (not) listen
to your
customers?
If I had asked people what they wanted, they
would have said faster horses
--Henry Ford, 1908
Any customer can have a car painted any color
that he wants so long as it is black
--Henry Ford, 1908
Innovation Level
New
&
Improv ed
03
Innovation Meter IM Established 1876
2 Discuss why new product
than they Appear
Object in the Mirrorare
Closer
They hadn’t seen in coming…
Performance
Time
Disruptive technology
Apple’s Revenue Feb 2007
Why New Products?
Stay ahead of the curve
Changing environment
Disruptive technologies
Revenue share from new products
3 Decide what to innovate
1 Is the product new to the company?
2 Is the market new to the company?
Products
Present New
Market
PresentNew
+
Stretching it…
Innovation can come in other form… Service, Support
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been“
Wayne Gretzky
What to Innovate?
Either Market or Product
Don’t stretch too much
Innovation’s many forms
Go where the puck is going
Is innovation a recipefor
Success?
4
A story of an
egg
Who was the sucker
who bought…
the first phone?
The two reasons people say no to your
idea "It's been done before" –
"It's never been done before”
--Seth Godin
Resistance is futile. Is it?
Bad timing
A Star is Born (and then Dies)
Quiz:
what was the first MP3 Player?
Haven’t heard
about
EigerMan?!?
But you’ve heard
about the 2nd
one, right?
What’s their secret ingredient?
Unimitatable
So, watch out for these…
Psychological Impact
Gimmicks without value
Network Effects
Timing
Internal or External Resistance
Imitatability
How to…5
Sit under this tree, just like Newton did
So, who got it first?
George Selden
Elisha Gray
Joseph Wilson Swan
Alberto Santos-Dumont Orville & Wilbur Wright
Thomas Edison
Alexander Bell
Henry Ford
1 + 1 = 11
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried
Remember:
Amateurs built the ark...
Professionals built the Titanic
I don't know who discovered the sea,
but it sure wasn't a fish
--Old Arab Saying
Look & learn
neighbors
from your
Trial & Error
Iterating
through
Watch your
customers
+ =
and more…
Methodological
System?!?
Subtraction
Subtraction
Multiplication
Multiplication
Multiplication
Replacement
Replacement
Attribute Dependency
Color
Type of Component
Attribute Dependency
Color
Temperature
Attribute Dependency
Cost
Delivery Time
Forecasting Matrix
Inventing a new Diaper
Absorption Color Size Scent Pattern (Exterior)
Age  –  – –
Sex  –  – –
Weight  –  – –
Secretion – – – – –
Activity  – – – –
Time (wearing) – – – – –
Q&A
Ramel.Levin+PPT@gmail.com
Could Jesus microwavea burrito so hot
that he himself could not eat it?
--Homer Simpson

Prodcut Innovation - Why & How

Editor's Notes

  • #3 * Light bulb – Symbol of innovation* What was the symbol before 1879?* Just a few of us realize the potential…
  • #6 * Q * Who is the brand?
  • #12 * Diet Coke was launched in 1982* It was a success* Became 4th most popular soft drink in America* Eventually displacing 7-Up as the 3rd* However… Diet Coke’s success  Diluted Coke’s existing sales and increased the proportion of Pepsi drinkers relative to Coke drinkers
  • #56 * Rio was sued since it was in the US* Gave them world fame, but later they have gone out of business
  • #60 * Cambridge
  • #61 * Alexander Bell was 27 (1874) when he invented the phone... * On 14th of Feb 1876 he registered the phone patent* 3 hours later Elisha Gray entered the same office and asked to register the same patent... Actually, Elisha filed the patent before, but Bell’s lawyer asked to pay immediately so he got the stamp first.* Light bulb – Who invented that? Historians list 22 inventors of lamps prior to Joseph Wilson Swan and Thomas Edison.* Airplane - Apparently, the debate comes down to how you define the first flight of an aeroplane.* Why this slide? To show inventions happen at the same time
  • #65 The ad said "No other soap is found in so many homes"…